Introduction
Upper Intermediate Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.
Course aims
To give students at Upper Intermediate CEFR B2 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary reading listening writing and speaking.
Грамматика
By the end of the course students will be able to:
- talk about quantity
- accurately use countable and uncountable nouns
- use conditional sentences to talk about unlikely actions in the future and impossible alternative present and past situations and regrets
- use modal verbs to talk about possibility, certainty, advice, and obligation
- differentiate between the present perfect and simple past
- talk about the future using a variety of verb forms
- report what people have said and questions they have asked
Словарный запас
By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.
Skills
By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including meetings, presentations, travel arrangements, and dealing with staff.
Unit summary
Entry test
- A 50-question test: which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test.
Module 1
- Грамматика: Talking about quantity
- Словарный запас: Business meetings 1
- Чтение: When communication breaks down
- Грамматика: Countable and uncountable nouns
- Словарный запас: People in business
- Прослушивание: Brand loyalty
- Словарный запас: Wordbuilding
- Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Describing your business or job
- Словарный запас: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Грамматика: Modal verbs – advice and obligation
- Словарный запас: Dealing with staff
- Чтение: A review of a car
- Грамматика: Modal verbs – possibility and certainty
- Словарный запас: Buying and selling
- Прослушивание: How luxury brands are surviving the recession
- Словарный запас: Wordbuilding
- Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Being polite in English
- Словарный запас: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Грамматика: Present perfect and simple past
- Словарный запас: People in business
- Чтение: Great inventions – the Sony Walkman
- Грамматика: Talking about the future
- Словарный запас: Corporate structure
- Прослушивание: Innovative advertising techniques
- Словарный запас: Wordbuilding
- Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Presentations
- Словарный запас: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Грамматика: Second conditional
- Словарный запас: Telephoning
- Чтение: La Jolie Fleur hotel
- Грамматика: Third conditional
- Словарный запас: Hiring and firing staff
- Прослушивание: Business trip travel arrangements
- Словарный запас: Wordbuilding
- Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Agreeing and disagreeing
- Словарный запас: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Грамматика: Reported statements
- Словарный запас: Business meetings 2
- Чтение: A job vacancy
- Грамматика: Reported questions
- Словарный запас: Money and finance
- Прослушивание: A job interview
- Словарный запас: Wordbuilding
- Словарный запас: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Talking about statistics
- Словарный запас: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 5
Exit test
- A 50-question test: which covers the same areas as the entry test thereby giving students an accurate measure of their progress through the course.
Follow-up
Students completing the Upper Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Power course.